The functional integral for quantum systems with Hamiltonians unbounded from below

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(90)90125-8MaRDI QIDQ808078zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Carreau, Edward Farhi, Sam Gutmann, Paul F. Mende

Publication date 1990

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(90)90125-8

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian functional integralregularization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Review text

The Brownian functional integrals which diverge for all time are studied. For the one-dimensional non-relativistic quantum mechanics with potentials which are unbounded from below at infinity and at the origin it is shown how to regulate the Brownian functional integral, analytically continue to quantum mechanical time, and then to remove the cutoff to obtain the quantum Green's function associated with any self- adjoint Hamiltonian. Such a construction illustrates the equivalence of the operator and functional integral approaches to quantum mechanics.

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